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The recipients of this year’s 6,000-euro young talent awards of the L’Oreal Baltic For Women in Science Programme are University of Tartu researcher Kaija Põhako-Esko and doctoral student Mari-Ann Lind. With the help of the fellowship they try to help people with innovative soft robotics solutions and improve the living conditions of animals through microbial research.

The UT Student Parliament elected the new board for the UT student body at their 10 June meeting. The new board will take office from 1 July 2021 for the coming two years.

The University of Tartu has signed a cooperation agreement with the consortium of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) future survey programme 4MOST, enabling the researchers of Tartu Observatory to participate in the programme. The goal of 4MOST is to survey tens of millions of objects in the southern sky within five years.

The Space Travel blog aims to provide insight into the public and private space ventures in Estonia and the neighbouring countries.

The graduation ceremonies of the University of Tartu are held from 15 to 30 June in person. In Tartu, the ceremonies take place on the square in front of the Old Anatomical Theatre. The graduation of Viljandi Culture Academy will take place as individual ceremonies that were well-received last year. In Narva, Pärnu and Tallinn, graduation ceremonies are held indoors.

The latest results of the waste water study led by the University of Tartu show that the amount of coronavirus in waste water samples has further decreased over the last week. Only Ida-Viru County and southern Estonia show higher readings than the index characterising the average situation in Estonia.

7 June marked the end of the two-year international cooperation project "Innosme" led by University of Tartu Startup Lab. The project focused on developing cooperation between Ukrainian entrepreneurs and universities by promoting the development and growth of self-confidence of women entrepreneurs.

Univeristy of Tartu (UT) Institute of Computer Science, Garage48 and UT Startup Lab organised the 8th Student Startup Camp that brought together university students from all over Estonia. Due to coronavirus restrictions, the camp took place completely online.

The last stage in the study on the prevalence of coronavirus in Estonia led by the University of Tartu is conducted from 10 to 21 June. The study will give an overview of the prevalence of the coronavirus and the number of people with coronavirus antibodies in the adult population.

In the reputable QS World University Rankings published today, the University of Tartu holds the 300th place. Since 2014, the University of Tartu has risen in the ranking on five occasions and fallen on three, but all in all has improved its position by 161 places in nine years.

The Research News section regularly provides hints of most interesting studies conducted in different fields, the results of which have recently been published in top-level journals. Social Sciences Researchers work with the goal of better crisis management in the future

Scientists from the University of Tartu’s Estonian Genome Center are taking part in new precision medicine initiatives that involve collaborators from across Northern Europe.

People have been living with microbes for millions of years. But it is only in recent years that we have begun to discover the secrets of microbial biodiversity, as these species invisible to the naked eye can be successfully identified in nature only by latest molecular methods.

The Institute of the Estonian Language and the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research have initiated the largest language technology development project to date, as a result of which the University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science and the Baltic language technology and localisation company Tilde started working on a reliable open-source machine translation platform for three language pairs: Estonian-English-Estonian, Estonian-Russian-Estonian and Estonian-German-Estonian.

The latest results of the study led by the University of Tartu confirm a decrease in coronavirus amounts in waste water all over Estonia. There are no very large virus amounts in any settlement.

The University of Tartu School of Law continues its Tartu International Law Conversations. The seventh event of the series entitled “Multilateralism in Modern International Law” will take place online on 9 June 2021 at 16–17 (EEST, GMT+3). The aim of this series is to invite academics and practitioners from Estonia and abroad to talk about various aspects of international law. Depending on the circumstances, the events take place in person or online.

In the 2021/2022 academic year, the position of the professor of liberal arts of the University of Tartu will be held by poet, essayist and translator Hasso Krull. The position will be handed over to him by Olga and Priit Pärn on 9 June in the round auditorium at Jakobi 2, followed by a discussion about whether the joke is a fading phenomenon in today’s Estonian society.

The newest results of the waste water monitoring survey led by the University of Tartu show a continuing decrease in the coronavirus amount in wastewater. Only the results of Ida-Viru County considerably differ from the general picture: the virus level there is five times higher than the average in Estonia.

The university’s orienteering month – May – is about to end, but as the initiative has attracted much interest, the orienteering course will remain open until 6 June. The university invites all employees, students, alumni and their families as well everyone else to orienteering in the city of Tartu. Come to discover places where the university family has done exercise and sports since the early 19th century!

On 27, 28 and 31 May, the University of Tartu in cooperation with project partners from Finland (Hansakallion koulu), Germany (Carl-Friedrich-Gauß-Schule (KGS) Hemmingen) and Iceland (Hrafnagilsskoli) is organising an international e-workshop on digital pedagogical entitled "May the Digital Pedagogy be with you" for teachers. Experts from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, and the United States make presentations and organise hands-on activities. The working language is English.